The proportion of patients with postoperative pulmonary complications in the first 5 days after thoracic surgery did not ...

Background: With dwindling rates of postoperative mortality in perforated peptic ulcer that is attributable to H 2-receptor blocker usage, there is a need to shift the focus towards the prevention of ...

A national audit of total abdominal colectomy for ulcerative colitis finds low 30 day mortality and a rise in laparoscopic procedures, a new Irish study finds.

This week we are going to discuss something which is very prevalent yet sometimes very poorly understood, the post-operative complications of total knee arthroplasty. Total knee arthroplasty or total ...

The postoperative complications of medical tourism may be costing the NHS up to £20,000 per patient, suggest the findings of ...

The Five-item Frailty Index (5i-FI) is a tool used by physicians to predict surgical risk and postoperative complications after a procedure. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding ...

Complications following surgical procedures pose significant risks to pediatric patients. Detecting complications after an operation can pose a challenge due to heavy reliance on symptom reports from ...

In this systematic review and meta-analysis, researchers examined outcomes among advanced ovarian cancer patients who ...

Ozempic, Mounjaro and other GLP-1s do not increase the risk of surgical complications, according to research published May 14 in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. Nearly a year after the American ...

Durotomy is a common neurosurgical complication involving a tear in the dura mater, the protective membrane surrounding the ...